Food of Oceania
Earth ovens, taro and coconut, meat pies, pavlova and the food of the Pacific islands. 22 dishes on Thali so far.
Hāngī
🇳🇿 New ZealandFood slow-cooked in an earth oven with hot stones, a Māori tradition
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Lūʻau
🇼🇸 Samoa and 2 morePolynesian stew or parcel of taro leaves, often with coconut milk and meat or fish
Stew or curry, Lunch, Dinner
Meat pieMeat
🇦🇺 Australia and 1 moreHandheld savoury pie with meat and gravy in a pastry crust, popular in Australia and New Zealand
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
'Ota 'ikaFish or seafood
🇹🇴 Tonga and 3 moreFish in citrus and coconut milk, served with chopped vegetables across Oceania
Salad or side, Lunch, Dinner
Bougna
🇻🇺 VanuatuRoot vegetables and meat or seafood wrapped in banana leaves and baked in an earth oven
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Boil upMeatKōhua kai
🇳🇿 New ZealandA Māori soup of meat, greens, root vegetables and dumplings boiled together
Soup, Lunch, Dinner
Sausage sizzleMeat
🇦🇺 Australia and 1 moreGrilled sausage served in bread with onions and sauce at community events
Street food, Snacks, Lunch
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Meat pie: fir0002 flagstaffotos [at] gmail.com Canon 20D + Canon 17-40mm f/4 L, GFDL 1.2, source
- Sausage sizzle: Alpha, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Hāngī: einalem, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Lūʻau: Neeta Lind, CC BY 2.0, source
- 'Ota 'ika: Eric Chan, CC BY 2.0, source
- Bougna: Michael Coghlan, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Boil up: Matyas Havel, CC BY-SA 3.0, source